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SOUVENIR 

Annual Ball 

MOTION PICTURE DIRECTORS 
ASSOCIATION 



February 



Seventeenth Nineteen Twenty 

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MOTION PICTURE DIRECTORS 
ASSOCIATION 

1923 



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MAR -8 '23 



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Directors — Craftsmen of the Stage and Screen — and 
you goodly Players who have entertained the world: 

rOU are now, Gentle Ladies and Brave Masters of both 
these allied professions, foregathered in this Room of the 
Roses to entertain yourselves. 

And your Host, The Motion Picture Directors' Association, in its 
Lodge Rooms over and against the Pass of Cahuenga, has planned 
this as a welcome to you. 

Now, therefore, Sister and Brother Craftsmen, Directors and 
Players — the best i the world, either for Comedy or Tragedy — 
we beg you to banish Tragedy, and save Comedy, so that joy may 
sit enthroned, and all cry : Carnival! Carnival! to the Stars of 
Hollywood, that it may resound from this Room of Roses to where 

"Green hills guard Fernando 's Valley 
Faery castled to the sea " 

To an amazed, on - looking world, who may wonder what can 
entertain those who live by entertaining others, or what pleasures 
can give joy to those who create pleasure, we modestly reply: 

An understanding, perhaps, of that "One touch of Nature that 
makes the whole world kin," a knowledge of Life's Dancing, 
from the stately Minuet to the Frisco Blues, has made of this world 
a wide and universal theatre for the Director and the Player 
who play their worthy parts. 

FRANCIS POWERS 
M.P. D.A. 




A Directors' Dance? 

What else do directors do but dance? 

They dance and they sing! They embrace a fat megaphone 
when they are not using it, and spend most of their time during the 
critical scenes trying to find the damned thing. 

At least this seems to be the method of those that I have watched. 
There is an old story which all of you must have heard, though some 
of you may not have put it into a picture yet. 

It concerns a traveler who found himself confronted by a stream 
at whose edge somebody's skiff was tied. Being unwilling to plagi- 
arize the boat, he found an ancient darkey in a hut not far off and 
asked him if he could row. 

The darkey answered: 

"Nossa! That's the onliest thing I nevva could seem to deu. 
Ah has often tried but ah nevva could seem to could." 
The traveler thundered : 
"You can't row?" 
"Nossa! I pintedly kinnot." 

"Well, I should think any old fool could row a boat." 

"Oh! You means row a boat? Ah kin row a boat. Yassa. I 
is a extryunordinary boat rower. What ah thought you was axin' 
me was could I ro' lak a lion. And that I kinnot. Nossa! Yessa!" 

What I was getting at is this: that often as I have tried I have 
never been able to ro' like a director. My voice sticks in the mega- 
phone and I get in front of the wrong end of the camera — whichever 
that is. I can never seem to learn except that it is always the wrong 
end. 

I despair therefore of being a director. But I love to see a 
director dance, especially when he is dancing on something beside 
my plot or my feelings. 

Since nobody will associate with a director off the lot, the direc- 
tors have formed an association of their own and are giving a grand 
ball on February seventeenth. This is plainly a typographical 
error for March siventeenth. But the directors have decided to let 
it stand. They let everything stand except what they find in the 
continuity. 

But they lead sad lives for all that; nobody loves them and their 
clothes don't fit. 

So let them dance. Let us all dance with them. We laugh at 
their expense. So let us dance, at our own. 




Members 

Motion 

Pitture 

Directors 

Association 



Los Angeles Lodge 




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James W. Horne 




Hobart Henley 



Henry MacRae 



Reeves Eason 



Members 

Motion 

Picture 

Directors 

Association 



New York Lodge 




C. J. Williams 



Jos. Richmond 



Honorary 

Members 

Motion 

Picture 

Directors 

Association 



Prominent 
Motion 
Picture 
Stars and 
Players 




Alary Pickford 




Douglas Fairbanks 



Lon Chaney 

as "Fagin" 




William Duncan 




Mabel Normand 



Tom Mix 




Florence Vidor 




Mae Murray 




Antonio Moreno 




Eleanor Boardman 




William Farnum 




Gloria Swanson 




Harold Lloyd 



Viola Dana 




Richard Dix 




Anna Q. Nils on 



Herbert Raivlinson 




May McAvoy 




Lloyd Hughes 




Mabel Ballin 




Jack Mulhall 




William Russell 




Vera Lewis 




Ralph Lewis 




Jane Novak 



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Roy Stewart 




Barbara LeMarr 




David Butler 




E. K. Lincoln 




Blanche Sweet 




Edward Everett Horton 




Peggy O'Day 




Johnnie Walker 




Sam deGrasse 




Dustin Farnum 




Baby Peggy Montgomery 




Larry Semon 




Fritzie Brunette 




T. Roy Barnes 

"The Go Getter" 




Bryant Washburn 




Bobby Vernon 




Noah Beery 




Eddie Lyons 




Jimmie Aubrey 




E. R. "Hoot" Gibson 




Edward Connelly 




Charles "Buck" Jones 




John Gilbert 




DeWitt C. Jennings 




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